CIBC

Director, Wealth Credit Risk

CIBC$125K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree/diploma in business, finance, economics, or related field; master’s degree is an asset.
  • Experience with high net worth credit; experience in Private Banking is preferred.
  • Completion of relevant financial services coursework, including Canadian Securities Course and Personal Financial Planning Course; CFA Level I or higher is an asset.
  • Proven leadership skills in developing strategic team goals and coaching employees.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to communicate complex data effectively.
  • Excellent relationship-building skills, with a focus on influencing outcomes.
  • Alignment with core values of trust, teamwork, and accountability.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the day-to-day credit adjudication function and ensure consistent, reasoned decisions in line with credit risk guidelines.
  • Coach and develop Credit Risk Managers to enhance capability and drive team performance.
  • Collaborate with Team Leads to promote consistent leadership across the team.
  • Partner with Private Banking leadership to align credit growth strategies with risk appetite.
  • Ensure controls, processes, and risk practices meet regulatory expectations and internal standards.
  • Contribute to risk initiatives that boost visibility and strengthen operational effectiveness.

Benefits

  • Recognition in meaningful ways including competitive salary, incentive pay, and banking benefits.
  • Comprehensive benefits program and defined benefit pension plan.
  • Employee share purchase plan and vacation offering.
  • Wellbeing support to enhance employee health and wellness.
  • Paid day off for personal growth and development initiatives.
Full Job Description
What you'll be doing

Wealth Credit Risk supports Private Banking delivering sound, client-focused credit risk management which balances strategic growth with prudent adjudication decisions.  As the Director, you’ll oversee the day-to-day credit adjudication function under the guidance of the Senior Director, helping ensure a consistent approach to high net worth lending decisions across the team. You’ll help lead a broad team of Credit Risk Managers, supported by a smaller group of Team Leads, building capability, strengthening engagement, and driving consistent and sustainable performance. You’ll work closely with Private Banking leadership aligning adjudication decisions with credit risk appetite while maintaining a client-first mindset in support. You’ll also partner with internal teams on controls, regulatory expectations, and key initiatives to support effective processes and clear oversight across the credit risk function.

You'll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you'll spend 3 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote.

How you'll succeed
  • Credit risk management oversight - Leading the day-to-day credit adjudication function, ensuring adjudication decisions are consistent, well reasoned, and aligned with established credit risk guidelines.

  • People leadership - Coach, develop, and support Credit Risk Managers to build capability, strengthen engagement, and drive strong individual and team performance.

  • Team leadership alignment - Collaborate with Team Leads promoting a consistent leadership approach across the team to support the effective execution of the credit risk management mandate.

  • Business partnership - Work closely with Private Banking leadership to support strategic credit growth while maintaining pragmatic alignment with credit risk appetite

  • Governance and controls - Partner across the business to ensure controls, processes, and risk practices align with regulatory expectations and internal standards.

  • Initiative leadership - Contribute to and help lead business and risk initiatives that improve visibility, strengthen oversight, and support ongoing operational effectiveness.

Who you are

  • You have a degree/diploma in business, finance, economics, or a related field. A master’s degree in business, finance, or economics is an asset.

  • You can demonstrate experience working with high net worth credit,  It’s an asset if you bring experience supporting Private Banking or high net worth credit clients.

  • You have completed relevant financial services or credit-related coursework, including the Canadian Securities Course and Personal Financial Planning Course. It’s an asset if you have completed Level I or higher of the Chartered Financial Analyst program.

  • You are a caring and accountable leader. You have experience developing and implementing strategic team goals. You have experience coaching employees and inspiring successful team performance.

  • You give meaning to data. You enjoy investigating complex problems and making sense of information. You communicate detailed information in a meaningful way.

  • Your influence makes a difference. You know that relationships and networks are essential to success. You inspire outcomes by sharing your expertise.

  • Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work, and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.

What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.

  • We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, defined benefit pension plan*, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.

  • Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.

  • We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.

*Subject to plan and program terms and conditions

Job Location

Toronto-81 Bay, 30th Floor

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

Analytical Thinking, Business, Capital Markets, Commercial Credit Risk, Credit Processes, Credit Risks, Emerging Risks, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Group Problem Solving, People Management, Private Banking

About CIBC

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The bank is headquartered at Commerce Court in the city's Financial District. CIBC's Institution Number is 010, and its SWIFT code is CIBCCATT. It is one of two Big Five banks founded in Toronto, the other being the Toronto-Dominion Bank. The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce was formed through the June 1, 1961, merger of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and the Imperial Bank of Canada, the largest merger between chartered banks in Canadian history. The bank has four strategic business units: Canadian Personal and Business Banking, Canadian Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, U.S. Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, and Capital Markets. It has international operations in the United States, the Caribbean, Asia, and United Kingdom; Globally. CIBC serves more than eleven million clients, and has over 40,000 employees. The company ranks at number 172 on the Forbes Global 2000 listing.
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